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 146 HAMILTON. first to desert thnt King and was President of the Convention at Edinburgh, 14 March 1689, which declared the throne vacant. To the pari. [S.] of 16S9 and of 1693, he was High Coramissioucr ; President of the Council and High Admiral [S.] being in 1693 reappointed an extraordinary Lord of Session [S.] He d. at the Abbey of Holyroodhouse, 18 April 1694 ill his 00th year and was bur. at Hamilton. (l ) M.I. By liia death his life peerages, cr. in 1660, became extinct. He, however, had previously resigned the Earldom of Selkirk with the Barony of Daer and Shortclcuch [S.] in favour of his yr. sou Charles (with rem. to his 1 other yr. sons) to whom, 6 Oct. 168S, that peerage had consequently been granted. See under '-Selkirk," Earldom, [S.] cr. 1646. His wife, the suo jure Duchess, received, 15 June 1661, a regrant of the Dukedom of Hamilton, the Marquessatc of Clydesdale, the E.irldom of Arran, Lanark and Cambridge, anel the Baronies of Machansyre, Polmont and Innerdalc, the resignation of these honours in March 1050 by her uncle William, the 2nd Duke, being partially recited therein. ( b ) These were granted with rem. to the heirs male of her body, whom failing, to her sister, Lady Susan Hamilton, to James, Lord Paisley (1st s. of James, Earl of Abercorn [S.], to George Hamilton ('id son of the said Earl) and to " Lady Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Crawford aud Lindsay " [S.J, and the heirs male of their bodies respectively, which failing, to the heirs whatsoever of William, Duke of Hamilton [S.], the eldest heir female to take without division. ( c ) The Duchess in her widowhood resigned her titles, 9 July 1098 in favour of her eldest sou, who was cr. accordingly, as under. She, who survived her said son 4 years, d. at Hamilton, 17 Oct. 1716, aged 80 .(•*) IV. 1698. 4- James (Hamilton), Duke of Hamilton, &c. [S.l, s. and h. He was 4. 11 April 1658, aud styled Eaul of Ahiun till 169S ; ed. at Clasgow Univ. : Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1079-SS ; Envoy to Paris, 16S3-S5, aud again Sep. I6S6 ; K.T., 29 May 16S7, being one of the eight original Knights of that Order ;(') Master of the Wardrobe, 1088; Col. of the Oxford Keg. of Horse, remaining in attendance on King James II. till that King left England, and being consequently on the side opposed to his own father. He was twice imprisoned and was tried aud acquitted in 1696. On the surreuder of his mother he received a novodamus{ r ) by pat. dat. at Loo 10 Aug. 1698, of the titles of Duke of Hamilton, ( a ) The character giveu of him by Bp. Burnet, who knew him well is that " He wanted all sort of polishing ; he was rough aud sullen, but candid aud sincere. His temper was boisterous neither fit to submit nor to govern. Ho was mutinous when out of power and imperious in it." (*) " The resignation by [William] the second Duke, made to the King at the Hague [1650] was in favour of himself and the heirs male of his body with rem. to the Lady Anne (his ' dearest niece," as he calls her iu his will) aud the heirs male of her body. The charter of 1661 [Mag. Sig. L. lx. no. 31] partially recites this resignation and grants her the Barony of Hamilton and certain other lands and baronies, which formerly belonged to William, Duke of Hamilton aud [which were] by him (in fulfil- ment of his obligation contained iu a bond of tailzie and provision) resigned into the King's hands at the Hague 10 March 1650, together with the titles and dignities of Duke of Hamilton, Marquess of Clydesdale, Earl of Arran, Lanark and Cambridge, Lmd Machansyre, Polmont and Innerdale, The charter generally ratilies and concerns to the Duchess these lauds and honours, without going over the latter in detail. The Earldom of Lanark was thus apparently conveyed to the Duchess. It was not a new creation nor did the second Duke die divested of it." Ex inform. J. Balfour Paul, Lyon. ( c ) These remainders are somewhat curious as one would have thought the daughters and coheirs of the 2d Duke would havo come after those of (his brother) the 1st Duke and before the heir male, represented by the Abercorn line. Still more would one have supposed that these ladies would have come before the Countess of Crawford, who was 2d of the three siaicra of the 1st and 2d Dukes and who in no way represented either of them. ( d ) " By her death an estate of above ±7,000 per ann. comes to her grandson, the present Duke." Hist. Jteg. 1716. (°) bee vol. i, p. 187, note " d," sub " Athole " for a list of these kuights. 0°) The fact of King William III. accepting the resignation of this peerage in favour of one who had been so much opposed to him occasioned much surprise,